Microsoft will offer Xbox, PC games on Apple and Android devices, report says

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft will offer its console and computer games for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and other smartphone platforms this fiscal year, through a tie-up with Japanese smartphone game maker Klab, the Nikkei said on Monday.

Through a licensing deal, Klab will bring Microsoft's Xbox and Windows-based computer games to the iPhone and smartphones using Google's (GOOG) Android operating system, according to the Nikkei.

Microsoft's "Age of the Empires" will be available as a free-to-play game worldwide on smartphones by the end of the fiscal year 2013 and other titles will follow, the report said.